Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

Restitution from Prenda 'Copyright Trolls'

posted by Fnord666 on Monday April 29 2019, @06:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the about-time dept.

number11 writes:

Possible restitution from Prenda copyright trolls

Know anybody who got extorted by settled out of court with Steele Hansmeier/Prenda/Alpha Law, Anti-Piracy Group, AF Holdings, Ingenuity 13, Guava LLC, Livewire, or LW Systems for (allegedly or actually) downloading porn vids?

After admitting to several criminal acts, Prenda Law attorneys John Steele and Paul Hansmeier will be sentenced a few weeks from now. In addition to prison sentences, the court may order the two to pay restitution. To facilitate this process, the U.S. Attorney's Office of the District of Minnesota is inviting victims of the fraudulent anti-piracy lawyers to come forward.

Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Restitution from Prenda 'Copyright Trolls' | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 6 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by RandomFactor on Monday April 29 2019, @01:00PM

    by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 29 2019, @01:00PM (#836238) Journal

    but they grind.

    This entire class of legal extortion needs to be killed with fire however, not just the occasional crazily over-the-top abuse that happens to get a strong pushback by someone well heeled enough to fight and make it stick, or lucky enough to get a motivated pro-bono lawyer looking to make a name for themselves.

    --
    В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   +1  
       Insightful=1, Total=1
    Extra 'Insightful' Modifier   0  
    Total Score:   2